ENGLISH CHILDREN

LITERATURE

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

Written by Jonathan Swift ( 3o November 1667-19 October 1745) during the year 1713 - 1725 (August). Published by the first time on October 1726, wich was consisting of two Volumes and later was published in a volume dividided into four parts, each with reference to each of the trips in wich Gulliver embarked.

Its original title was: “Travels into Several Remote

Nations of the world, in four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ship”

Gulliver's travels ARGUMENT: The book follow the adventures experienced by

English surgeon whose passion is traveling, to take one of those trips, and when he wakes shipwrecked on an island is unknown. From that moment begins a series of occurrences in which it has to face all kinds of circumstances.

The book is divided into four volumes that make up the "four voyages" that made Guilliver:

-Travel to Lilliput: First island that comes and where it is captured by a race of people of size but him. He manages to escape from there with several companions.

-Travel to Brobdingnag: After escaping from the first island, they are forced to land on the island of Brobdingnag to get water, but the inhabitants of that island, inhabited by giants, and leave you pesiguen left at the mercy of those people. Once again manages to escape.

-Travel to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan: The ship where traveling is attacked by pirates and again wrecked the ship where it travels. On this trip he acentecen various adventures in different island.

-Travel to the land of the Houyhnhnms: When attempting to return home, it is again attacked by pirates who decide to mutiny and drop on the first island they find, which is inhabited by horses. After another attempt to return home (England) at the end he succeeds, but is unable to reconcile with life among human and becomes a hermit, avoiding as much as possible to his family and his wife, to spend several hours a day talking to the horses in their stables.

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS

TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHOR

Although it is often considered a children's play, is actuall a ferocious satire of society and the human condition disguised as a travel book picturesque country (a genre quite common at the time). Captain Lemuel Gulliver is in paradoxical situations: a giant among dwarfs, a dwarf among giants and a human being ashamed of his condition in a land populated by wise horses that are more human than the men themselves and distrust rightly thereof.

OLIVER TWIST and CHRISTMAS CAROL

Written by English novelist Charles Dickens (1835-1936). It was the second work of this author and was the first English work which had as a child star. The first time was published in the journal "Bentley's Miscellany" by installments mensaulaes from February 1837 to April 1839.

AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES *“The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”

(1836-1837) *“David Copperfield” (1849-1850) *“A Tale of Two Cities” (1959)

OLIVER TWIST

ARGUMENT: Relates the English skills of a child, poor and orphan who has to make a living in the IXX century England. This is to survive in that Victorian society and the hardships he iterponen after fleeing the orphanage. London is shown as a city full of mazes and alleys, where the point is the dirt and crime which is involved, the big factories where they work day and night for a miserable salary .... is the story of a struggle for progress in life, the adventures of Oliver Twist, his eagerness to find a place in society, a place that rightfully belongs, but that has been taken away from birth.

TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHOR Dickens mocks the hypocrisy of his time dealing with these serious issues (such as factories where working children, adults and seniors in insalubles conditions, filthy and were treated like scum) with sarcasm and black humor. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of the hardness of his life as a child laborer in a cotton mill was able to translate perfectly into the role of Oliver, his friends and all that Victorian society

CHRISTMAS CAROL

ARGUMENT: It tells how a shy person and stinging can change your attitude during this Christmas, it's ghost his best friend to advise you that has to change his attitude, but Scrooge is indifferent to what he says and Christmas Day is aperecen three spirits: The Past, which reminds Scrooge children and young life full of longing before his addiction to work and get rich. The Present Scrooge does see the current situation of the family of his employee, who despite their poverty and illness of his son, celebrates CHRISTMAS Like all people. The Spirit of the Future, silent and somber, shows the most heartbreaking thing: the fate of the greedy. His house was ransacked for the poor, the memory of his dead friends and even shows you his own tomb.

TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHOR It refers to society Indsutrial England Revolution, in which they had many gains were not content with what he had but each time they wanted more and finally they became greedy and insensitive, but nevertheless, those who were materially poor tenaían wealth that those stingy longed, the heart, the illusion of all.

TREASURE ISLAND

Novel written by the Scotthis Robert Louis Stevenson

(1850-1894) in 1881. It was published in book for the first

time in 1883, and was originally published, between 1881-1882,serialized in the children's magazine "Young Flolk" with the title "The Sea Cook" or "Treasure Island".

AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES

*Prince Otto(1885). *The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). *The Black Arrow (1888) *Island Nights' Entertainments: “The Bottel Imp" (1891), "The Beach of

Falesá”(1892) and "The Island of Voice” (1893).

TREASURE ISLAND

ARGUMENT: The novel tells the tricks that happen to Jim Hawkins, a boy who one day will make delivery of a secret box in his father's inn when he dies. Flee to the chest and when you open it you realize that inside is a hidden treasure map. Jim, along with a doctor friend and others embark on the adventure treasure, but before finding it undergoes various vicissitudes in the island that come, with pirates and some of the crew of the ship where traveling.

TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHOR The novel, despite ifantil address the public and young

people, takes a critical tone and a moral reflection of the protagonist toward money and ambition, whose moral was to warn the

younger that time, fortune and the money wasn't everything in life

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll (1832-1898). The first publication of this book was done in 1865. The book has a second, less known, called Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there, in 1871).

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

ARGUMENT:It narrates the journey of a girl named Alice, when he falls through a hole chasing a white rabbit. Once inside this world, Alice can grow or shrink at will. Go to a race, talk to a blue caterpillar that helps you grow, is lost in the forest and befriends a cat, take tea with the Mad Hatter, his friend rabbit and rat small. His friend the cat helps him out of that forest and opens a door to the castle of the queen of hearts, there will be judged and sent to cut his throat, but escapes and starts to run ... and suddenly wakes up and realizes that everything that has been lived only a dream

TRUE PURPOSE OF THE AUTHORThe story is filled with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends,

the English education and political issues of the day. The Wonderland described in the story is created through mathematical logic games

PETER PAN and WENDY

ARGUMENT:Throughout the story are many and varied anecdotes fabulous, including when Tinkerbell almost died from eating poison, and a direct confrontation with the enemy of Peter, the pirate Captain Hook. In the end, Wendy decides that her real living space in your home is next to his parents and his brothers carried it back to London, while Peter Pan remains in Neverland, promising his fellow play back repeatedly to visit.

PETER PAN and WENDY

Written by Scottish novelist and playwright James Matthew Barrie (1860 - 1939), he created the character of Peter Pan based on the son of his friend Arthur Llewelyn Davies with whom he played and decided to recount those games in a book, Peter Pan and Wendy (1911), and in a play, Peter Pan (1904), which then further developed in a series of stories and novels

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Realizado por:Begoña Flores Gómez.2º Educación Primaria.